CVE-2014-1421 — mountall 1.54, as used in Ubuntu 14.10, does not properly handle the umask when using the mount utility, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via unspecified vectors

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mountall 1.54, as used in Ubuntu 14.10, does not properly handle the umask when using the mount utility, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via unspecified vectors

Published Nov 25, 2014

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.51%

Description

mountall 1.54, as used in Ubuntu 14.10, does not properly handle the umask when using the mount utility, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.51% 0.00507

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00507

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 3, 2026	0.51% (0.00507)	41.16th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.51% (0.00507)	39.05th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.01% (0.00014)	1.42th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (1)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2411-1
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2411-1		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner canonical

Published Nov 25, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jan 13, 2014

Link CVE-2014-1421

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-1421

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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